Description

This brass sextant is approximately 3/4 or 2/3 the normal size of a standard sextant. All mirrors and shades are good and damage free, the silver scale reads from -5 to 155, the arc engraved, ‘G. Whitbread, London’.

George Whitbread worked from 1828 – 77.

Contained in mahogany case with 3 telescopes; two have the initials ‘H.B.A.’ engraved on them. The other, ‘C.E.M.’.

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